Breakdown of Ella sigue superando esos obstáculos.
ella
she
esos
those (masculine)
seguir
to continue
superar
to overcome
el obstáculo
obstacle
Questions & Answers about Ella sigue superando esos obstáculos.
Why do we use sigue plus the -ando ending here instead of just saying she overcomes them?
The combination of seguir (to continue or to follow) and a gerund (a verb ending in -ando or -iendo) is used to emphasize that an action is ongoing. So, sigue superando literally means 'continues overcoming', which we naturally translate as 'keeps overcoming' in English.
I always mix up esos, estos, and aquellos. Why use esos here?
Esos means 'those' (for masculine plural nouns like obstáculos) when the things are at a medium distance, or just generally 'those things we just mentioned'. If they were right here with us, we would use estos (these). If they were far away in time or space, we would use aquellos (those over there).
Why does the word obstáculos have an accent mark on the 'a'?
In Spanish, words naturally stress the second-to-last syllable if they end in a vowel, the letter 'n', or the letter 's'. Without the accent, we would emphasize the 'cu' syllable. Because the spoken stress actually falls on the third-to-last syllable (the 'ta'), we must write an accent mark to break the standard rule.
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